Browsing by Author "Tanu Solanki"

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Research competitiveness of Indian institutes of science education and research
(Indian Academy of Sciences, 2016) Tanu Solanki; Ashraf Uddin; Vivek Kumar Singh
This article describes our effort to measure the research competitiveness of Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) through a scientometric analysis of their research output during the last five years (2010-14). The research output indexed in Web of Science of the five recently established IISERs has been obtained and analysed computationally to identify growth trends, per capita output, authorship and collaboration patterns, citation impact, average citation per paper, etc. The research performance of IISERs is also compared with the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Technology system to obtain an assessment of their research potential. Thus the article presents a useful and detailed analytical account of research potential and competitiveness of IISERs.
Research performance of the National Institutes of Technology in India
(Indian Academy of Sciences, 2018) Sumit Kumar Banshal; Tanu Solanki; Vivek Kumar Singh
This article presents a bibliometric assessment of research performance of the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in India. While many of these institutes were originally established in 1960s as Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), they were upgraded to NITs around 2002 and later. Initially NITs offered only undergraduate programmes in engineering. However, during the last decade, several NITs have started postgraduate teaching and are focusing more on research activities. It is in this context that this article assesses the research performance of NITs during 2005-2016. The performance assessment uses research publication data obtained from the Web of Science index. The data collected are computationally analysed to identify productivity, productivity per capita, rate of growth of research, international collaboration pattern, citation impact and discipline-wise distribution of the research output for the NITs. The performance of NITs is also viewed vis-à-vis two top-performing Indian institutions, namely Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. A simple single-value composite ranking of research performance of NITs is also presented by combining quantity and quality factors. The study presents an informative and useful account of assessment of research work in the NITs. © 2018, Indian Academy of Sciences.
Social media coverage of research output from 100 most productive institutions in India
(Phcog.Net, 2019) Tanu Solanki; Mousumi Karmakar; Sumit Kumar Banshal; Vivek Kumar Singh
In the modern age of connected world and social media, research outcomes that are of direct interest & relevance to society are increasingly being shared and disseminated in news sources and social media platforms. Some studies have found that social media mentions of research papers can be an early indicator of their impact. India, which is now among the top 10 knowledge producers in the world, has more than 900 Universities that contribute to its research output. This paper tries to analyze as to what proportion of research output from the 100 most productive Indian institutions gets social media coverage. It is found that, while average social media coverage for India is around 28.5%, the coverage varies between 5% to 60% for different institutions. It is also observed that research output from institutions in some specific disciplines (such as Medical Science and Biological Science) attract more social media coverage as compared to others. The possible impact of geographical location (in a metro city) of an institution on social media coverage of its research output is analyzed as well. The findings present useful insight about social media coverage of research output of Indian institutions, which may be a proxy for societal relevance of the research work, and also indicate that suitable mechanisms need to be designed to promote dissemination of research results from Indian institutions in popular social media platforms. © The Author(s).